Translation and Ethics
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| Blog Name: | Translation and Ethics |
| Url: | http://www.translationandethics.blogspot.com/ |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | Translation, Ethics |
| Description: | The goal of this blog is to provide a space for members and non-members of the Facebook group Translators for Ethical Business Practices to share resources, best practices, and advice with each other in a non-competitive environment that fosters teamwork and cooperation among colleagues. In a competitive, cut-throat industry, this is a place to leave all that behind and join efforts to creating standards of which we can all be proud. |
| Popularity: | 26 Followers |
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Why I wouldn’t translate Twitter’s FIGS
Crowdsourcing, machine translation, bottom feeding… we all know what these are: threats to professional translators. What we don’t know is just how serious these threats are and what, if any, impact they’ve already had on our industry. On October 8, Tech Crunch published a post called Twitter Needs you to Translate its FIGS. This post tells us about the difficulties Twitter is facing when trying to “expand to the global community” and it describes how other social networking tools like Yahoo Meme have tried to “fill the gap” by offering Twitter-like servi
Crowdsourcing, machine translation, bottom feeding… we all know what these are: threats to professional translators. What we don’t know is just how serious these threats are and what, if any, impact they’ve already had on our industry. On October 8, Tech Crunch published a post called Twitter Needs you to Translate its FIGS. This post tells us about the difficulties Twitter is facing when trying to “expand to the global community” and it describes how other social networking tools like Yahoo Meme have tried to “fill the gap” by offering Twitter-like servi
A Walk Down Memory Lane
Now that Facebook has changed its layout our original group description is too long for the new space provided. So we’re adjusting. We’re keeping our original mission statement in a discussion thread on our Facbeook site and on our blog (just for keeps sake).For those who would like to know (or simply remember) how and why Translators for Ethical Business Practices got started, here it is: This group was inspired by a recent experi
Now that Facebook has changed its layout our original group description is too long for the new space provided. So we’re adjusting. We’re keeping our original mission statement in a discussion thread on our Facbeook site and on our blog (just for keeps sake).For those who would like to know (or simply remember) how and why Translators for Ethical Business Practices got started, here it is: This group was inspired by a recent experi
Our Ethical Obligation to the Environment is an Ethical Obligation to Ourselves
It was John Locke who wrote, “The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it… that all being equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in life, health, liberty, or possessions…" (in Second Treatise of Government). Beautiful words indeed, but often taken ever so lightly. There are many kinds of harm: intentional, unintentional, accidental, cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and the list goes on. I myself am no stranger to unintentional harm, something I’m sure I share with many of my readers. Harm is something that is easy to cause and difficult to amend. The harm we cause can often go unnoticed for years, but have lasting effects for generati
It was John Locke who wrote, “The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it… that all being equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in life, health, liberty, or possessions…" (in Second Treatise of Government). Beautiful words indeed, but often taken ever so lightly. There are many kinds of harm: intentional, unintentional, accidental, cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and the list goes on. I myself am no stranger to unintentional harm, something I’m sure I share with many of my readers. Harm is something that is easy to cause and difficult to amend. The harm we cause can often go unnoticed for years, but have lasting effects for generati
TEBP: The Road Ahead
Sometimes our actions have consequences, both negative and positive, that extend far beyond anything we can imagine. Sometimes our actions generate crises and those crises bring new opportunities to learn and grow. TEBP has recently undergone a “crises” which I am hoping will soon turn into an opportunity for growth and expansion. It is no secret that TEBP recently cleared up a misunderstanding with AIPTI regarding an apparent overlap between our groups. Fortunately, this misunderstanding was quickly resolved and I do not wish to go back on that in this post, I do i
Sometimes our actions have consequences, both negative and positive, that extend far beyond anything we can imagine. Sometimes our actions generate crises and those crises bring new opportunities to learn and grow. TEBP has recently undergone a “crises” which I am hoping will soon turn into an opportunity for growth and expansion. It is no secret that TEBP recently cleared up a misunderstanding with AIPTI regarding an apparent overlap between our groups. Fortunately, this misunderstanding was quickly resolved and I do not wish to go back on that in this post, I do i
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